Tour Scotland Photograph Bob Black Gravestone Ceres Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of the Bob Black gravestone in the churchyard cemetery in Ceres, Fife, Scotland. Here lies the corpse of Bob Black, who died December 10th, 1706, aged 63.

In the Highlands, Black is synonymous with the patronymics Macilduy, Macildowie, or MacGilledow, all of which derive from the Gaelic " Mac Gille dhuibh " meaning son of the black lad, and it is these Blacks who have been particularly associated with the Lamonts, MacGregors, and MacLeans. When the Lamonts and MacGregors became " broken " clans, both were forced to conceal their identity and many chose the names Black and Macilduy. The novelist, William Black, traced his descent from a branch of Clan Lamont who were driven from their home-lands under a leader called the "Black Priest". The exiles settled in Carnwath, Lanarkshire, and were later noted covenanters. Another lineage of Blacks were descended from the Blacks of Garvie, in Glendaruel, Argyll, where the head of this family was known as " Mac-'Ille-Dhuibh-mor-na-Garbha ".



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